COOPERATES Synonyms: 57 Similar and Opposite Words

cooperates

verb

present tense third-person singular of cooperate

as in collaborates

to participate or assist in a joint effort to accomplish an end conservation groups cooperated with state authorities to find a humane way to manage the area's overpopulation of deer

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as in unites

to form or enter into an association that furthers the interests of its members several industrialized nations cooperated in a trade agreement to reduce or eliminate tariffs

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Recent Examples of cooperates If risk is purely a market phenomenon, the response is to time entries and exits well and hope the cycle cooperates. — Khalifa Aldhaheri, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Cycling is another option when the coastal weather cooperates. — Sierra Vandervort, Travel + Leisure, 10 Sep. 2026 If the horizon is clear and the weather cooperates, these are the evenings to circle on your skywatching calendar. — Joe Rao, Space.com, 5 Sep. 2026 There were 223 seats at the Lee’s Summit restaurant, not all of them in use, like the 24 in the open-air patio or at the two bars — one that expands into a third outdoor patio for when the weather cooperates. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 3 Aug. 2026 If the weather cooperates, the possibilities are endless — hiking, surfing, sunbathing, strolling, gazing at the stars in the sky. — Ed Silverman, STAT, 31 July 2026 Rethink old assumptions and embrace new possibilities when Uranus cooperates with Pluto. — Usa Today, USA Today, 18 July 2026 Every backyard astronomer should be able to see it without any special equipment (if the weather cooperates). — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 3 July 2026 As a matter of practice, the district cooperates fully with any review conducted by the Office for Civil Rights. — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 19 June 2026

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She was shortlisted for the Loewe Foundation Craft Prize in 2019 and collaborates regularly with JW Anderson on bespoke ceramic commissions and works.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 4 Oct. 2026
The company operates as a specialist, non-bank senior lender with a team that collaborates across structured credit, investment banking and film and television finance.

— Tanya Fedak, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026

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What unites the two candidates is the assumption that Brazil still has the freedom to choose its foreign policy strategy.

— MATIAS SPEKTOR, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
The collaboration unites Adelaide University’s expertise in superconducting quantum materials and sensor development with SwRI’s strengths in advanced RF engineering, signals processing and operational applications, as per the release.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of unites

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It will be won by organizations that consolidate and orchestrate with a vendor-neutral control plane that federates data, reasons across domains, governs agents as first-class citizens and connects to whatever the ecosystem looks like next quarter.

— Shailesh Manjrekar, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
The exec brought up how Arte federates a network of 14 public broadcasters, has programs available in seven languages, and maintains strong ties with the creative ecosystem across Europe.

— Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 17 Mar. 2026